GK and Current Affairs Updates

 The legislature on Friday gave its endorsement for leeway of 8 thruway ventures worth 6000 crores.The all out length of the task is around 350 kms.

Key components of the venture:

* 2 Project must be founded on Hybrid-annuity show and staying six under EPC strategy.
* The significant benefiters of the thruway task are Maharastra, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh The undertaking does not require bureau endorsement as the thruway service can authorize itself for tasks under 1000 crores.
* Under Hybrid annuity model, 40% will be endorsed by the legislature in introductory stages and adjust 60% as portions.

Focuses to note:

* Urban development Minister Nitin Gadkari.
* All out street ventures endorsed for the current year for 10,000 kms.
* Government has wanted to expand thruway length from 96,000 kms to 2,00,000 kms.

* Minister of Road Transport and Highways: Nitin Gadkari.

 The political irregularity in the condition of Arunachal Pradesh took after by the president's standard has reached an end with Kalikho pul taking vow as ninth Chief Minister.

Political Scenario:

* Kalikho pul is presently upheld by 18 congress radical MLA'S and 11 BJP MLA's from outside and 2 autonomous.
* The 46 year old congress radical was beforehand the Health clergyman under the Nabam tuki government.
* President's standard was forced in the state in January.
* On Wednesday, Pul asserted to shape government yet the high court requested to keep up the norm in the state.
* Taking after this the Supreme court cleared route for the arrangement of government under Pul lifting the president's principle. 

Keypoints:

Previous CM: Nabam tuki.

Legislative leader of Arunachal Pradesh: Rajkhowa.

Capital: Itanagar.

Present quality of the house: 58.

 Andy Ganteaume, the previous West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago wicketkeeper-batsman, passed away on 17 February 2016 in Santa Margarita, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. He was 95.

Ganteaume was West Indies' most seasoned living Test cricketer, and the world's second most established, after South Africa's Lindsay Tuckett.

Who was Andy Ganteaume?

* Andy Ganteaume was a Trinidadian cricketer who played one Test match for the West Indies in 1948 as a batsman.
* He scored 112 in his just Test innings, which left him with most noteworthy Test batting normal ever.
* He played for Trinidad from a youthful age and was played in a Test match against England taking after his great batting structure in 1948.

* In 1957, he visited England with West Indies yet did not make the playing XI for any of the Tests.

 Veteran artist Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan had passed away in Kolkata because of maturity issues.

* He was the most seasoned Hindustani traditional vocalist.

* He was recompensed with the Padma Bhushan in 2013.

* He had composed almost 2,000 ballads.

He was likewise recompensed with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and Kashi Swar Ganga Award.

Legislature of NCT Delhi had granted him with life time accomplishment honor in 2013.

 Rio Haryanto turns into Indonesia's first Formula one driver subsequent to marking an arrangement with Manor Racing going to be held in Melbourne, Australia. Haryanto turns into Indonesia's first Formula one Driver.

He replaces the Briton Will Stevens.

He was acknowledged as a driver of Manor Racing Formula one Team for the 2016 F1 season.

He began he profession at the Asian-based arrangement amid 2008 these are the Asian Formula Renault Challenge, Formula Asia 2.0, and Formula BMW Pacific.

 10,000 euros World Press Photo of the Year 2015 honor has been presented upon Australian picture taker Warren Richardson amid the 59^th yearly World Press Photo Contest.

* Richardson's photo indicates outcasts going an infant through a security barrier on the outskirt of Horgos (Serbia) and Roszke (Hungary).
* The picture was titled as "Hope for a New Life".
* His photo additionally won first prize in the Spot News classification.
* World Press Photo of 2015 exhibited to Australia's Richardson is an independent picture taker who is at present situated in Budapest, Hungary.

About World Press Photo of the Year:

* The honor has been facilitated by Dutch establishment "World Press Photo". The victor will give with €10,000 alongside the most prestigious and desired recompense in photojournalism.

* The jury gave prizes in 8 classifications to 41 picture takers from 21 nations.
2016 challenge:
* The 2016 challenge drew passages from 5,775 picture takers of 128 nations submitted 82,951 pictures.
* The jury was included 18 globally perceived experts in the fields of photojournalism and narrative photography from 16 nations, which was led by Francis Kohn.
* Notwithstanding money prize, Canon gave the triumphant picture taker the as of late dispatched Canon EOS-1D X Mark II camera and lens unit.
* The prize-winning pictures are displayed in a presentation which is going to around 100 urban areas in around 45 nations through the span of the year.

 U.S. President Barack Obama will consult and confer 6 Indian-Americans with the most astounding US government prize for youthful autonomous analysts i.e. Presidential Early Career Awards.

Vikram Shyam – He is among the six NASA researchers to get this grant who drove the specialized development in key air transportation at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is among the.

Milind Kulkarni – A partner teacher with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. His exploration concentrates on Programming Languages and Compilers that backing effective programming and elite on developing complex structures.

Kiran Musunuru – Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University and Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital has built up a "genome altering" approach for forever diminishing cholesterol levels in mice.

Shwetak Patel – Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor in Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Patel is a broadly perceived master in sensor frameworks research.

Rahul Mangharam – From the University of Pennsylvania was chosen for imagining another formal philosophy to test and check the right operation of restorative gadget programming, sparing lives and decreasing consideration costs.

Sachin Patel – An Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Vanderbilt University Medical Center offered a hint of something to look forward to heavy drinkers who think that its difficult to stay calm.

About Presidential Early Career Awards:

Set up in 1996, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the most elevated honor presented by the US every year on remarkable researchers and specialists in the early phases of their autonomous exploration vocations.

Honors are meant to keep up the administration and leadership position of the United States in science.

 His self-portrayal "Playing It My Way" had entered the Records in the classification of top of the line books crosswise over both fiction and true to life classifications.

1,50,289 duplicates of his books were sold on request memberships.

The book was distributed by Hachette and was dispatched on 5^th November 2014 Mumbai India.

Sachin Tendulkar is otherwise called the God of Indian Cricket.

 Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (I.I.P.E.) and Andhra University had marked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to begin the I.I.P.E. sessions amid the scholastic year 2016-17.

* The MoU is marked for the 3 years.
* The MoU had been helped by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited.

* After the MoU I.I.P.E. will get the approval to control the country in instruction, research and preparing identified with all zones of Petroleum and Energy.

 In an offer to advantage urban poor under the PM's Awas Yojana (Urban), Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation licensed development of 81,757 houses for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in urban zones in 7 states.

Minister for Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation – M.Venkaiah Naidu

* Venture Outlay – Rs. 4, 076 cr.
* From aggregate oultay Ministry will imbue focal help of 1,226 cr @ Rs.1.50 lakh per every house.
* 163 urban communities of chose 7 states will be secured under the advantage urban poor venture.
* Help to urban poor!! 81,757 houses in 7 states. The complete houses endorsed Housing for all activity of the Government will be worked under two segments viz.
* Beneficary Led Construction – Out of aggregate houses endorsed, 58,456 houses will be worked under this part. As a part of this, recipients will assemble new houses all alone land with help from focal and state governments.
* Reasonable Housing in Partnership – Rests 23,301 houses will be based on the terms that state governments will give land and the focal government gives a help of 1.50 lakh for every recipient.

* With this assent, government has achieved an aggregate endorsing of 5.07 lakh houses for financially weaker areas in 13 states with an aggregate focal help of Rs.7, 519 cr.